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Ubisoft had a very on-brand problem with Assassin's Creed Odyssey: there weren't many tall buildings in Ancient Greece even though it's a "climbing-frame game"

Assassin's Creed Ubisoft foresaw the grindy fate of Assassin's Creed Valhalla back in the Odyssey days, wanting a literal "odyssey" but not "a world that was just fatiguing to travel through" Assassin ...
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One problem with making an Assassin's Creed game in Ancient Greece, says Ubisoft, is that there just weren't enough tall buildings for a 'climbing frame game'

But when it comes to Odyssey, "a lot of the buildings and the points of interest we were building were much smaller." Ancient Greece is not exactly short of grand buildings and architectural glories: ...